But this is not the reason for my post.
Last night I was involved in a discussion about life, but not just life in general, life in Christ. The conversation didn't start there, but rather on the topic of our words, being judged and acquitted by what we say. This then lead to our heart motivations, judging others, or censoring others, and so much more. It was quite the intense little conversation, but left me with a few thoughts that I thought I would share via blog form...
1. I've come to this conclusion repeatedly... Our lives need to be continually transformed from the inside out, and the best way to do this is to allow our minds to be transformed by the word of Christ, thus the importance of spending time with God in the word and not just in prayer etc.
2. We need to remember that in all that we do we need to check our motivations and ensure that they are pure, not based on pride, jealousy, malice etc.
3. No matter who we are or where we are, we are witnesses. Our lives ought to witness the life of Christ, our lives should be lived as a reflection of Christ, our lives should be shared in order to share Christ, and we need to allow our lives to be used by Christ - that means releasing what deem important and our "need to do's", so that Christ can give us his "need to do's"!
There are a few other thoughts... one last one is more of a frustration... How is it that my understanding of Christ and that of those people from that Church in Middle America be so different. Why do they have so much hate in their doctrine, when my doctrine is more based on love? How can our interpretations be so radically opposed? Who is the blind one?
That's it today... other than my continual saga of whether or not to go to camp for the summer and so on... but that's just a regular part of my life... so blah... hahah...
